problems scrolling in text areas

I am having problems using the scrollbar in a text box. When I create the scrollbar the text area shrinks in size, and even when I try to resize the text area, it remains the same. Here is the code!

scrollText1 = Scrollbar(self.text1)
scrollText1.config(command = self.text1.yview)
self.text1.config(yscrollcommand = scrollText1.set, height = 15, width = 85)
scrollText1.pack(side = RIGHT, fill = Y)

self.text1.grid(column = 1, row = 2, sticky = N+E+S+W)

self.text1 is previously declared. Any suggestions would be very appreciative

Thanks!

Personally I use the scrolled text widget:

from ScrolledText import ScrolledText
self.text = ScrolledText(self.parent)

When you say shrinks in size - what exactly happens?

grim

without the scrollbar the text area is 15 lines,
when i declare a scrollbar to accompany the text area, it shrinks to 6 lines, even when the text area is declared to be larger. This happens no matter where the configuration for the text area is stated.

Thanks for the help though, I will probably change my code to use your suggestion if I can't figure it out soon.

Thanks again!

Liz

The scrollbar needs a container as a parent (Frame,Window), a text box is not enough it seems. If you set the scrollbars parent to be the containing frame the text box should size correctly.

grim